The three people before him turned around, looking at Zheng Yingxiong with confusion.

Zheng Yingxiong took a step forward and showed them the note in his hand.

“‘Cause and Effect’…?” Yun Yao furrowed her brows slightly. “Little brother, this note is…?”

Yun Yao felt there seemed to be far too many questionable points on this note.

Zheng Yingxiong didn’t speak, only pointing to the alley behind him. The three of them understood his meaning at this moment.

The content on this note was very likely conveyed by the Man-Monkey just now.

“‘Do not become a Zodiac’… what does that mean?” Yun Yao said. “We’re ‘Participants’… how could we become ‘Zodiacs’?”

At this moment, Zheng Yingxiong and Lawyer Zhang turned to look at Yun Yao with slight confusion, momentarily at a loss for words.

“Elder sister… you don’t know?” Zheng Yingxiong said. “Every ‘Zodiac’ here was actually once…”

“Wait, enough. We’re not discussing this question.” As if thinking of something, Yun Yao immediately interrupted Zheng Yingxiong, changing the topic. “Is that ‘Man-Monkey’ very important to you?”

Seeing that the other party was unwilling to mention this question, Zheng Yingxiong could only nod. “Yes, extremely important to me.”

“Is it possible he’s misleading you?”

Zheng Yingxiong shook his head. “I don’t believe he would harm me, because he’s had countless opportunities more suitable than now to harm me, but each time he protected me. So the content written on this note must be his true feelings. I want to act according to his instructions.”

Yun Yao kept staring at the note in his hand in silence, her expression not looking too good.

Zheng Yingxiong nodded after hearing this. “Yes, I’ve seen that woman. She seems to be together with Gu… with the Man-Monkey.”

“What kind of mess is this, one thing after another…” Yun Yao’s expression darkened as she spoke with slight displeasure. “The first time I threw the iron rod, it pointed to a ‘Zodiac.’ Is the second time going to point to ‘Cause and Effect’…?”

“What’s wrong…?” Zhang Chenze turned her head and asked. “Do you know that ‘Cause and Effect’ too?”

“More than just know her.” Yun Yao scratched her head. “She’s ‘Extreme Path.’ She infiltrated ‘Heaven’s Mouth’ for many years and gained my trust, and she obstructed us from clearing games countless times. What’s even worse… the over six hundred ‘Dao’ that ‘Heaven’s Mouth’ collected were once burned up in a fire. I suspect she did that too.”

“There’s such a thing?” Zhang Chenze blinked.

“Yes. That’s why I’m raising the question. The ‘Extreme Path’ should be considered my number one enemy here. They have strength in numbers yet act in mysterious ways. I truly hate them to the extreme.” After Yun Yao finished speaking, she turned to look at Zheng Yingxiong again. “Yingxiong, do you really want to act according to the content on the note?”

At this moment, Zheng Yingxiong felt slightly confused.

These so-called “Extreme Path” members’ style of conduct was remarkably similar to Gu Yu’s after he returned from traveling through various cities.

After Gu Yu returned to “Jade City,” he had also been dedicated to preventing everyone from collecting enough “Jade.”

Zheng Yingxiong felt there seemed to be some information gap in everyone’s communication.

“Elder sisters… are all the people here working hard to collect fifty-seven thousand six hundred ‘Dao’?” Zheng Yingxiong asked.

“Fifty… fifty thousand?” Zhang Chenze laughed and shook her head. “How could there be such an exaggerated number… We need to collect three thousand six hundred.”

“Three thousand six hundred…” Zheng Yingxiong nodded. “Then do you know what will happen after you collect them all?”

Zheng Yingxiong posed the question from the bottom of his heart. It seemed these people didn’t know there was a blade hanging over their heads. This situation was somewhat too bizarre.

After hearing this, Zhang Chenze said with slight curiosity, “Isn’t it said that collecting three thousand six hundred ‘Dao’ means we can get out?”

At this moment, Zheng Yingxiong finally discovered where the sense of incongruity lay. These three people before him understood this place even less than he did after being sealed away for over ten years.

What kind of bizarre situation was this?

“If we could get out, someone would have gotten out long ago, right?” Zheng Yingxiong said. “As soon as you collect them all…”

He was about to blurt it out but suddenly froze.

Wait a moment.

Yun Yao had just said that the organization called “Extreme Path” had strength in numbers. So why didn’t they reveal the truth?

“Dao City” and “Jade City” were two cities with very distinct differences. They could completely go out on the streets and express their views about this place without receiving any punishment from “family rules.”

If so, why not tell all the people here that as soon as you collect three thousand six hundred “Dao,” you’ll undergo a great reshuffle?

Based on these past few days of contact, Zheng Yingxiong generally felt that “Heaven’s Mouth” was like an organization that had existed for a long time. “Extreme Path” was the same.

These two established organizations actually both didn’t know this truth—no matter how one thought about it, this was a very absurd matter.

Could it be their memories were all recent…? Or was someone deliberately concealing this truth?

“What happens when you collect them all?” Zhang Chenze asked with some confusion.

“This…” Zheng Yingxiong was momentarily at a loss for words. Years of surviving in dangerous environments had made him extremely careful before doing anything.

“Stop asking,” Yun Yao interrupted their conversation. “No matter what consequences there are from collecting three thousand six hundred ‘Dao,’ we shouldn’t view ‘Extreme Path practitioners’ as teammates.”

Tiantian, who had been listening from the side for a long time, interjected at this moment, “But Yan Zhichun and Lin Qin, whom we’re going to find, are both ‘Extreme Path.'”

“I don’t know about Yan Zhichun, but Lin Qin is a bit different from ordinary ‘Extreme Path’ members,” Yun Yao said. “She’s known you all for some time. She’s never sabotaged your plans, has she?”

“That’s true,” Tiantian nodded.

“Besides, our ultimate purpose in finding these two people is for ‘Wen Qiaoyun,'” Yun Yao added. “It was never for the ‘Extreme Path.'”

After hearing this, Zheng Yingxiong lowered his head and pondered again. If the situation occurring before him differed greatly from the situation he understood, then it indicated there was another possibility.

Could Gu Yu have lied back then?

After all, since he returned to “Jade City,” no one had truly collected fifty-seven thousand six hundred “Jade,” and no one had truly witnessed that so-called “disaster.”

Zheng Yingxiong’s entire understanding of the “disaster” came from Gu Yu. The path Gu Yu persisted on might have come from “Cause and Effect,” and “Cause and Effect” was “Extreme Path.” Looking at it this way…

“I want to join the ‘Extreme Path,'” Zheng Yingxiong suddenly raised his head and said to everyone.